Phonepe·Software Engineer

Phonepe Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a machine coding round where I basically built the solution on my own within a short timebox and then handed it back as a ZIP file to the recruiter.

I remember there being multiple candidates on the call, the interviewer dropped the prompt, and after I finished coding, the next step was an evaluation discussion. The machine coding itself had a time limit of roughly 1.5 hours.

A few days later, the evaluation call happened and I walked through what I’d built. That debrief lasted about 30 minutes, and the conversation went deep into implementation choices—why certain approaches were used and what could be improved. The coding prompt I worked on was centered around a hackathon platform, specifically the “platform” part of the feature.

Then

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